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#5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading
Warm-Up
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Name ______________________________________________
Check Your Understanding
1.
How did Steve Jobs name his computer company?
a. after his favorite apple
c. after his best friend
b. after a memory of a happy summer job in Oregon d. in honor of his mother
2.
From the context of the passage, what is a
gadget?
a. something mechanical created to do a job
c. a computer expert
b. a kind of computer
d. a college class
3.
Which happened second in Jobs’s life?
a. He met Woz, and they became friends.
c. He invented the Apple II.
b. He worked one summer for Atari.
d. He made spy movies at home.
4.
Which of the following facts is
not relevant to the career of Steve Jobs?
a. He built the Apple I Computer in a box.
b. They introduced the Apple II in 1977.
c. Steve Jobs was sent to Germany by Atari to solve a problem.
d. As a kid, Steve Jobs had to have his stomach pumped at the hospital.
Steve Jobs had a lot of imagination and
curiosity as a child. He enjoyed making
spy movies at home with his friends in the
neighborhood. His curiosity led him to do
dangerous things, like stick a metal hairpin
into an electric socket. (He was badly
burned!) He also drank ant poison and had to
have his stomach pumped at the hospital. He
was not very well behaved in school and often
wasted time. He was interested in anything
scientific. He worked on inventions, took
apart machines to see how they worked, and
combined chemicals.
Jobs had few friends and didn’t like school
until he met Steve “The Woz” Wozniak. They
met in high school. Woz was a whiz with
electronics and was always inventing new
gadgets. Jobs and Woz spent a lot of time
building gadgets. Jobs even called the owner
of a computer company to get some free parts.
What he got was a good summer job building
computers.
After a short stint at college and a job working
with Atari
®
, Jobs and Woz created their
own business. They worked out of Jobs’s
family garage. They named the company
after a happy summer Jobs had spent picking
apples in Oregon. They called it Apple
Computers
®
. They created the Apple I
Computer
®
, which was a success. They soon
created a better version, the Apple II
®
, which
was also successful. By the time he was
twenty-five, Jobs was already worth over 250
million dollars. He would go on to make the
Macintosh
®
. He would continue to develop
computers and the products that use them,
such as the iPod
®
and iPhone
®
. Steve Jobs is
considered one of the most inventive people
in the world. He is also a very successful
businessman.
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